6:41 PM,
Nov. 29, 2013

Mary Chalmers at her Glue Factory store in Chili on Nov. 8.

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One of the most asked questions at the Glue Factory Gift Shop in Chili? How the shop got its name.

Owner Mary Chalmers said the name harkens back to her family's work at the family-owned gelatin plant. They would joke and call it the glue factory, she said.

The name struck a chord with shoppers, and for 39 years, the Glue Factory has been a destination shopping spot on Union Street near Roberts Wesleyan College, attracting people from as far west as Buffalo, south to the Livingston County region as well as the loyal customers in the greater Rochester area. ...